
Persia knew that there were more important things in life than dieting down to a size six. She knew that real men didn't care about thin thighs. And Marsh Randolph was a real man. Still, Persia hoped desperately that he wouldn't connect her with the pink-ruffled butterball that had tripped over him at her cousin's wedding ten years earlier. She'd slimmed down considerably since then, especially when adolescent visions of sugarplums had turned into fantasies of Marsh. He was everything she'd ever wanted - surely she'd get her just deserts!
Author

Dixie Burrus was born on September 09, 1930 in North Carolina's Outer Banks, U.S.A, where her family had lived for generations, to sea captain Dozier Burrus and Achsah Williams. Her father was the professional baseball player Maurice Lennon "Dick" Burrus, she has two sisters, Mary and Sarah Burrus. Dixie is an artist and romance writer. She began writting contemporany romance novels as Zoe Dozier, now she writes her contemporary romances with her married name, Dixie Browning, and historical romances with her sister, Mary Burrus Williams as Bronwyn Williams, one combination of their married names. She has been awarded a Romance Writers of America RITA Award, and been a five-time RITA finalist. She has also won three Maggies, and numerous awards from the National Federation of Press Women and the NC Press Club.